Have you been good?

6 May, 2015
Author: Vanessa Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Category: New Books

Grand-daughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, Vanessa Nicolson was the only child of an unhappy marriage between art historian Ben Nicolson and her high-powered Italian mother. Looking back on her life as both daughter and mother, Nicolson cleverly interweaves recollections of her difficult younger years with those of her own child Rosa, who died in 2008 aged 19 years. A raw, moving and often beautifully written memoir and a courageous attempt to share and understand the loss of her child.